PHIL 201 - Introduction to Philosophy

Required  Readings          

 What Is Philosophy?
Intro. Vocab.
Plato in a Nutshell
Plato's "Cave"
VR Vocab.
Virtual Morality
Screenworld
FreeWill,Determinism,Suicide
Myth of Sisyphus
Voltaire (Tolerance)
The Enlightenment
What Is Enlightenment?
Skeptical Manifesto
Kant study guide        
Life Without Principle
Music   
Cobain    /    Beethoven

Sexual Politics

 


for in-class use -
Philosophy Dictionary
The Existential Lexicon
U.S. Bill of Rights

 

cave

wisdom

Socrates

drug use

comic

 

paintingprozacpainting

         media

  MORE STUFF ...

Philosophy and the Matrix
Trained to Kill    Dave Grossman
Why Study Philosophy? (good links)
      99%  ! ?                99%   cc version
Chart of U.S. Income Inequality
Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter
Nagel, The Absurd  
Squashed SARTRE
Will to Believe
Guide for Writing Outlines
Enlightenment, Part 1
       Enlightenment, Part 2
Shermer   1  /  2
Why Not Frack?

Civil Disobedience

Plato's Cave Animated
The Apology (youtube film)
 
Voltaire + Jefferson
Enlight. clip
The Apology of Socrates
de-sensitization!

Feminist?  /  CC version
POPOFF?
3-min. Plato
Socrates on Death:  1  2
The Essence of "VR" 
Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace 
Top 10 Reasons to Study Humanities
PhilosophyEncyclopedia
Philosophy Dictionary
Cobain / Beethoven
Thoreau video
Depression is Real! 
A
nti-depressant Polka
Will to Believe youtube
 Kant study guide
Dreamworlds3  /  CC version
Killing Us Softly   /   Slim Hopes
Pharmaceutical video

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?
Skinner 
AreWomenMorallySuperiorToMen?
2min.versionOf Plato's Cave!
Frankl on Meaning
Fromm on Freedom 
Philosophical Films
slide show Alienation
Sagan on Skepticism 1 / 2
How to Favorably Impress the Instructor

Secrets of Psychics... 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
 
             
(Part 1 CC version)
            (Part 2 CC version)
           (Part 3 CC version)

Skepticism

Adbusters

Project MUSE
Epistemology Library
THOREAU Reader
Squashed Philosophers

Einstein/Freud letters 
Notes From Underground 
Havel-Postmodernism
James-Will to Believe
The Second Sex
Postmodern Condition
Tolstoy-What Is Art?
Benjamin-Work of Art
The Grand Inquisitor 
Darwin-Descent of Man 
AreWomenMorallySuperior
Existentialism Is a Humanism 
Mth of the Computer
The MEATRIX
Dying to be Thin
Modern Meat
Cracking the Code of Life  
Medicating Kids

Faith & Doubt at Ground Zero
The Torture Question
Media Education Foundation Videos
Merchants of Cool
Game Over

SKEPTIC'S DICTIONARY
Amazing Randi
Philosophy Now
Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptic
SEARCH Formula

Discourse on Method
MIRACLES

intelligent design

map


 

music

 

comic

 

 

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